diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/H2Dialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/H2Dialect.java
index de04a84883..37ffe0e5ea 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/H2Dialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/H2Dialect.java
@@ -395,4 +395,11 @@ public class H2Dialect extends Dialect {
 	public boolean supportsTuplesInSubqueries() {
 		return false;
 	}
+	
+	@Override
+	public boolean dropConstraints() {
+		// We don't need to drop constraints before dropping tables, that just leads to error
+		// messages about missing tables when we don't have a schema in the database
+		return false;
+	}	
 }